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Thankfully, the giant space rock will pass at a distance of about 39,000 miles - less than one-fifth the distance of Earth to the Moon (Image: Nasa)

Paul Chodas, manager of the Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , said: “Although 2018 CB is quite small, it might well be larger than the asteroid that entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, almost exactly five years ago, in 2013.

“Asteroids of this size do not often approach this close to our planet - maybe only once or twice a year."

If you want to see the asteroid as it flies past our planet, you’ll be happy to hear you don’t need to get your telescope out.